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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SILAS B. FYLER, OF EAST SYRAGUSE, NEW YORK.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,253, dated March 15, 1887,

Applica tion filed January 7, 1887. Serial No. 223,674.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SILAS B. FYL R, of East Syracuse, county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplings, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of the end of a car with the coupling devices attached thereto; Fig. 2,a sectional side elevation taken on line as 00, Fig. 1, showing the two draw-heads opposite each other; Fig". 3, a side elevation of the lever-locking bar, and Fig. 4 an isometric view of the link-guide.

Similarletters and figures of referenceindicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

My invention relates to that class of carcouplings using the ordinary style of drawhead and a link and pin,the link entering the end of the draw-head substantially horizontally, and the pin passing down through the draw-head and link in the ordinary manner.

It also relates to that subdivision of carcouplers in which the coupling devices are operated from the outsides of the cars by appliances or mechanisms to guide the link and to insert or remove apin.

My invention consists in the several novel features of construction and operation hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claims hereto annexed.

It is constructed as follows:

A is the body of the car, mounted upon wheelsjin the ordinary manner, and provided with boxes, axles, and the other necessary accompaniments, of any desired form of constrnction.

B is the draw-head, of any ordinary form, and provided with the usual link-cavity in the head and with pin-holes, and the whole is mounted upon the car in the customary manner.

O G are the operatinglevers, used by a person standing at the side of the car, mounted loosely in and supported by the guide-brackets 1 1, which are secured to the end of the car, and which are also the fulcral bearings at times of one or the other of the levers, whichever one is used. The inner ends of these lovers are (No model.)

pivotally secured to the arm D, which arm is secured upon the lower end of the rod E,which rod is mounted loosely in the supportingbrackets 2 2,111 such a manner that when either of the levers O are pulled outward or pushed inward this rod E is partially rotated, and the arm D is thereby swung around one way or the other. Upon this rod I secure, by a setscrew or otherwise, the collar 3, which rests upon the bracket and carries the rod and arm,

as shown in Fig. 2 upon the left. In the outer end of this arm I make two holes, 4 5. In the hole 4 I secure one end of the chain 6,the other end of which is connected to the pincarrier 7, which consists of a concave piece of metal, provided with a hole for the body of the pin through the bottom, the head of the pinlying in the concavity. In the hole 5 I secure one end of another chain, 8, the other end of which is connected to the link-guide 9, which consists of a plate of metal provided with the link-slot 10. This plate is suspended from the arm D, hanging against the front end of the draw-head, and the link 11 lies in the slot 10 loosely.

The rod E extends upward nearly to the top of the car,and is there provided with a handle, 12, so that a person on the top of a car can reach down, grasp the handle, and raise the rod, and this upward movement raises the arm, and first the plate or linkguide 9, the chain 8 being shorter than chain 6. This movement vertically of the linkguide raises the outer end of the link to the desired height to properly enter the opposite draw-head when that is higher than the one carrying the link; also, in case one draw-head is out of line with the other either to one side or the other, I can twist the rod E, throwing the arm D around in the direction necessary, and this will swing the link-guide in the same direction and carry the outer end of the link to the desired point. To raise this rod E from the side of the car, I press down upon the outer end of a lever, O, the bracket 1 then serving as a fulcrum for the lever; and to turn the arm D to either side to direct the point of the link I either push the lever from me or draw it toward me; and in case I desire to sustain this rod, arm, and linkguide when thus elevated, I pass the lever under the tooth 13, which may be one of a series of teeth upon the outside of the bar 14, which is secured by hinge-connections to the end of the car. Near the upper end of this bar is a stud, 15, projecting outward and perforated transversely or provided with an eye, 16. I place one of these bars 14 on each side of the end of the car, and connect them by a rod, 17, connected to the eyes 16, and when elevated to this leverlocking point the arm D has lifted the pin 18, by its chain 6, to substantially the point shown on theright of Fig. 2 that is to say, high enough to permit the link to pass under the bottom of the pin.

I make the variation in the length of the pinchain 6 and that of the linkguide S in order that I can operate the link-guide as above described without moving the pin. I usually use only one link-guide to a car, leaving the opposite draw-head uncovered and open; also, this link-guide is detachably connected to the arm D, as by a hook and ring in the chain 8, so that I can remove it readily in case the cars to be coupled should happen to be both of them provided with such guides upon the meeting draw-heads.

In coupling and uncoupling I usually operate the pin in that draw-head which is not provided with any link-guide.

In case the pin is supported in an elevated position, as shown in Fig. 2, by the locking of a lever, G, the lever can be unlocked and the pin dropped by a person upon the opposite side of the car to that upon which the lever is locked by turning the bar upon that side, and through the connecting-rod 17 turns the opposite bar, twisting the tooth 13 off from the bar, and the rod E, arm D, and all parts connected thereto drop'down to their normal positions.

In case a pin is broken I can replace it with another by simply taking the broken one out of the carrier 7 and inserting another.

It will be observed that by my devices a car can be uncoupled from another or coupled to another by a person either standing upon the ground at the side of the car or upon the top of it; also, that the link can be guided, where the bumpers or draw-heads are of uneven height or out of line with each other, by a person either at the side of or upon the top of the car, by the movement of thelink-guide, as described.

What I claim as my invention,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

from an arm connected to a lever having a fulcrum on the car and adapted to operate vertically and longitudinally, said link guide adapted to be raised or lowered vertically and swung laterally by said lever, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a car-coupling, the levers O, fulcrumed in bearings upon the car and having longitudinal movement therein, and pivotally connected to the arm D, the rod E, adapted to move vertically and to rotate in its bearings and connected to the arm D, and the slotted linkguide 9, suspended from the arm D, in combination with the draw-head B and link 11, substantially as described and shown.

3. A car-coupling consisting of a rod, E, mounted upon the car and provided with an arm, D, the levers 0, connected to said arm,

and a link guide and pin, also connected thereto, in combination with the draw-head and link, constructed and operating together substantially as shown and described.

4:. A car-coupling consisting of a rod, E, mounted upon the car and provided with an arm, D, the levers 0, connected to said arm, and a pin, also connected thereto, in combina tion with the draw-head and link, constructed and operating together substantially as shown and set forth.

5. In a car-coupling, the rod E, mounted in bearings 2 on the car, and adapted to move vertically and to rotate therein, and provided with an adjusting collar, 3, in combination with the bearings 2, substantially as described and shown.

6. In acar-coupling, the combination of the lever O with the bar 14, hinged to the car and provided with teeth 13, substantially as described, for the purposes set forth.

7. In a car-coupling, thecombination of the levers O with the bars 14, hinged to the car and provided with teeth 13, studs 15,- eyes 16, and connected by the rod 17, substantially as de scribed, for the purposes set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of December, 1886.

SILAS B. FYLER.

In presence of- WM. BooN, IVM. O. RAYMOND.

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